{"id":1263182,"date":"2022-12-08T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/ofori-atta-safe-as-vote-of-censure-fails-amidst-majority-walkout\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:32:09","slug":"ofori-atta-safe-as-vote-of-censure-fails-amidst-majority-walkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/ofori-atta-safe-as-vote-of-censure-fails-amidst-majority-walkout\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofori-Atta safe as vote of censure fails amidst Majority walkout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The vote of censure motion filed by the Minority against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has failed.<\/p>\n<p>This is because only 136 legislators on the Minority side voted on Thursday to demand the removal of Mr Ofori-Atta thus falling short of the two-thirds constitutional requirement for the motion to pass through.<\/p>\n<p>The proponents of the motion needed the votes of 183 legislators to have the motion passed against Mr. Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the vote, the New Patriotic Party MPs staged a walkout and decided not to support the motion of their colleagues from the opposition side of the House.<\/p>\n<p>The Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Mensah, who led the walkout said his side cannot be part of a process that was baseless and politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu addressing the Speaker said the censure motion by the Minority caucus was pushed out of bad faith and only sought to embarrass the Finance Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou [the Minority] want us to follow you on this misadventure. Mr Speaker, like Pontius Pilate did, we will wash our hands of this\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority caucus filed a motion of censure against the Finance Minister, accusing him of mismanagement of the economy, financial recklessness, conflict of interest, and gross mismanagement of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>In his defence, the Finance Minister rejected allegations of conflict of interest and gross mismanagement of the economy levelled against him by the Minority caucus in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had done nothing wrong and described the allegations against him as witch-hunting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I say I am innocent they [the minority] will not believe me and if I ask for the truth and proof, they will not be able to provide that. I have committed no crime,\u201d Mr Ofori-Atta insisted on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Ac8-ZVLotLg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Economic woes not my fault; We are in cataclysmic and near apocalyptic times - Ken Ofori-Atta\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ac8-ZVLotLg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vote of censure motion filed by the Minority against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has failed. This is because only 136 legislators on the Minority side voted on Thursday to demand the removal of Mr Ofori-Atta thus falling short of the two-thirds constitutional requirement for the motion to pass through. The proponents of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}